Interior. Council chamber, corridor, N entrance, staircase, detail.

Description Interior. Council chamber, corridor, N entrance, staircase, detail.

Date 21/12/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 42289

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 716163

Scope and Content Staircase and north entrance in Council chamber corridor, Lanark County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Lanark County Buildings were built 1960-4 to designs by the County Architect's Office of Lanark County Council, under the guidance of City Architect, David Gordon Bannerman. They consist of a 17-storeyed office block with a two-storeyed block below linked to a circular Council chamber. This civic headquarters complex is set within a paved entrance 'plaza' with flagpoles, lawns, fountains and pools. This shows the curving corridor around the circular Council chamber. The exterior walls are of pre-cast concrete with vertical rows of narrow windows. Curving stairs with open risers (spaces between each step) curve up to double doors with leaf-shaped glazed panels set within a varnished wooden surround. The Council chamber was designed to hold 120 councillors plus 50 members of the press and public. It is linked to the main office block by a bridge, and has a separate public entrance at the front. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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